I work for a Danish financial software company called SimCorp. We are about 1200 people worldwide with about 500 in the development organisation spread across 4 locations, Copenhagen, London, Kiev & Bad Homburg in Germany. About 2 years ago a decision was made by our CTO to 'go agile' and SAFe was chosen as the vehicle we would use. Many organisations are now choosing SAFe as a starting point for large scale organisational change, and whilst SAFe is broad framework that offers answers for much of what you will run into, there is also a lot it does not say or does not have an opinion on. We now have approx 55 teams who have adopted agile ways of working, across 8 release trains, spanning all 4 locations. In addition to this we are now engaging with HR and other areas of the business such as customer implementation consultants who are keen to see what its all about. This session will cover some of the most important stuff we have learned 2 years on from adopting SAFe, and give you some ideas of how to address these problems should you run into them.
